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The Pond Snails of the Genus Radix (Gastropoda, Lymnaeidae) in Issyk-Kul Lake (Central Asia), with a Review of Radix in Ancient Tectonic Lakes of the World

Lake Issyk-Kul, situated in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, is one of the largest lakes in Central Asia. Though this brackish-water basin holds only a species-poor fauna of molluscs, the number of species inhabiting Issyk-Kul and their true taxonomic position remain unsatisfactorily studied. Most nominal species of Mollusca reported from Issyk-Kul are known from empty shells only and have never been studied molecularly. This study reports the results of a revision of the genus Radix (Gastropoda:Hygrophila:Lymnaeidae)...

Download 2025 Ivan N. Bolotov , Olga V. Aksenova , Maxim V. Vinarski , Vladimir Pešić , Victor R. Alekseev , Alexander V. Kondakov , Irina S. Khrebtova , Vitaly M. Spitsyn

Pensoft Publishers

Water mite diversity from southwestern Türkiye through the lens of the DNA barcodes, with the description of one new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia)

This study presents the molecular and morphological results from an analysis of water mites collected in southwestern Türkiye. 83 COI barcodes are provided, clustered into 40 BINs, with 23 BINs being unique and deposited for the first time in the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD). The first DNA barcodes for eight water mite species are uploaded into the BOLD database. In total, 34 water mite species were identified and one of them, Iranothyas marismortui (Gerecke, 1999) is newly reported from...

Download 2025 Milica Jovanović , İskender Gülle , Harry Smit , Vladimir Pešić , Andrzej Zawal , Pınar Gülle , Aleksandra Bańkowska , Stanisław Musielak

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Application of the River Habitat Survey Method in the Assessment of the Human Pressure Within the Lowland River Catchment: The Mollusc Biodiversity Versus Habitat Features

The objectives of our study were to analyse the degree of human pressure within the lowland river catchment in relation to the mollusc communities and to assess the usefulness of the River Habitat Survey as a field method in determining the human pressure in the mollusc biodiversity context. The River Habitat Survey (RHS), an essential method for hydromorphological studies of rivers under the requirements of the European Union Water Framework Directive, was applied. This study showed that the diversity...

Download 2024 Grzegorz Michoński , Przemysław Śmietana , Joanna Pakulnicka , Iga Lewin , Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska , Dominik Zawadzki , Vladimir Pešić , Robert Stryjecki , Edyta Stępień-Zawal , Andrzej Zawal , ... Pogledajte sve

Informa UK Limited

Descriptions of a new species and undescribed sexes of two water mite species from Uttarakhand, India (Acari, Hydrachnidia)

Download 2024 Pankaj Bahuguna , Harry Smit , Vladimir Pešić , Emina Kijevcanin , Rajesh Rayal , Neha Sharma , Kumbhlesh Kamal Rana

Acarological Studies, DergiPark

Contributions to the knowledge of the water mite fauna (Acariformes, Hydrachnidia) of Türkiye with descriptions of two new species

In this study, water mites have been collected from running waters and springs in Elazığ province (Eastern Türkiye). Totally, twenty species are identified. The families, Hydrovolziidae and Feltriidae are newly recorded from Elazığ province. Atractides (Atractides) ermani sp. nov. and A. (Atractides) elazigensis sp. nov. are described as new to science. Additionally, the recent list of known number of species of water mite in Türkiye by provinces is given based on published data with an overall...

Download 2024 Yunus ESEN , Vladimir Pešić

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Drivers of the Structure of Mollusc Communities in the Natural Aquatic Habitats along the Valley of a Lowland River: Implications for Their Conservation through the Buffer Zones

The objectives of our survey were to determine the most important environmental factors within buffer zones that influenced mollusc communities and to evaluate the ecological conservation value of natural aquatic habitats (NAHs) that support mollusc species. Analysis of the spatial structure of buffer zones and catchments was based on a set of landscape metrics. Land cover classes were determined, and buffer zones within a radius of 500 m from a sampling point were marked out. Mollusc samples were...

Download 2023 Grzegorz Michoński , Joanna Pakulnicka , Iga Lewin , Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska , Izabela Szućko-Kociuba , Edyta Stępień , Vladimir Pešić , Robert Stryjecki , Andrzej Zawal , Zuzanna Krzynówek , ... Pogledajte sve

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DNA barcode-based survey documents underestimated diversity and intricate phylogeographic patterns of aquatic Heteroptera in an endangered Balkan biodiversity hotspot: ancient Lake Skadar basin

Abstract Lake Skadar with its surrounding springs, wetlands and larger affluents is among the most diverse freshwater ecosystems in the Mediterranean region and a key biodiversity/endemism hotspot in Europe. It is also highly endangered due to climate change and rapid tourism development in the area. Being abundant, diverse and mostly predatory, true aquatic bugs play an important role in the functioning of freshwater ecosystems and are used as indicators of aquatic habitat quality. Nevertheless,...

Download 2023 Tomasz Rewicz , Grzegorz Tończyk , Tomasz Mamos , Piotr Gadawski , Vladimir Pešić , Andrzej Zawal , Łukasz Trębicki , Michał Grabowski

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River Habitat Survey: Does This Help to Explain the Nature of Water Mite (Acari and Hydrachnidia) Assemblages?

In the European Union, assessments of the quality of the aquatic environment based on aquatic invertebrates are mandatory. Biological methods are supplemented with hydromorphological assessments of watercourses. There are many studies analysing the relationships between aquatic invertebrates and the hydromorphological assessment of the environment by the River Habitat Survey (RHS) method, but thus far, there has been no detailed study including water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) and the application...

Download 2023 Grzegorz Michoński , Joanna Pakulnicka , Iga Lewin , Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska , Vladimir Pešić , Ewa Filip , Robert Stryjecki , Andrzej Zawal , Aleksandra Bańkowska , Tapas Chatterjee

MDPI AG

An Updated Checklist of Freshwater Gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Emphasis on Crenobiotic Species

An updated checklist of freshwater gastropods of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including 144 species and subspecies from 59 genera and 17 families, is presented in this paper. Hydrobiidae is the most diverse family, representing ~50% of the species richness in the country. In total, ~38% of the recorded taxa are endemic. The highest number of species was recorded from underground waters and/or springs, followed by rivers and standing waters. This inventory includes 18 crenobiotic taxa, of which 9 are...

Download 2023 Ana Savić , Dejan Dmitrović , Vladimir Pešić , Goran Šukalo

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First insight into molecular diversity of interstitial water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia): a case study from the upper Neretva River in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Download 2023 Milica Jovanović , Špela Borko , Maja Zagmajster , Behare Rexhepi , Vladimir Pešić , Ekaterina S. Konopleva , Ester Premate , Andrzej Zawal